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Teaching for Learning: 101 Intentionally Designed Educational Activities to Put Students on the Path to Success

Publication date
2016
Authored by
Claire Howell Major Professor of Higher Education Administration, University of Alabama
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Michael S. Harris Associate Professor of Higher Education, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Southern Methodist University
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Todd Zakrajsek Associate Professor, University of North Carolina
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Book Review

Despite a growing body of research on teaching methods, instructors lack a comprehensive resource that highlights and synthesizes proven approaches. Teaching for Learning fills that gap. Each of the one hundred and one entries describes an approach and lists its essential features and elements demonstrates how that approach has been used in education, including specific examples from different disciplines reviews findings from the research literature describes techniques to improve effectiveness. Teaching for Learning provides instructors with a resource grounded in the academic knowledge base, written in an easily accessible, engaging, and practical style.

APA Citation

Major, C.H., Harris, M.S, & Zakrajsek, T. (2016). Teaching for learning: 101 intentionally designed educational activities to put students on the path to success. New York: Taylor and Francis.

Target Audiences
Faculty and Instructors
Topics
Student Success
Publication date
2016
Authored by
Claire Howell Major Professor of Higher Education Administration, University of Alabama
Michael S. Harris Associate Professor of Higher Education, Director of the Center for Teaching Excellence, Southern Methodist University
Todd Zakrajsek Associate Professor, University of North Carolina